 I'm going to share with you five different ways that you can find a reader as soon as now. If you are filming your audition or today for tomorrow, you can find a reader right now to help you out. Hi, my name is Velhika and I am an actress and I make acting related videos all of the time. And today we're going to talk about how you can get a reader for your self-tape auditions. And if you're brand new, you don't even know what reader is. You don't know what self-tape auditions are. I have lots and lots of playlists on my channel. Somebody that you live with because your reader doesn't have to be an actor. The reader should be somebody who is either neutral or making your audition better. It shouldn't be somebody that makes you anxious or nervous or angry because, you know, sometimes family does that. So it can be anybody. The reader's job is to help you with those other lines if they're able to also put some emotion into the text that they're reading and read it truthfully and be able to help you out and make your audition better. Great. Simply say the words. That's fine too. Make sure you communicate with them exactly what you want from them. If you just want them to read the text, if you want them to give you feedback or make sure you're saying all of the lines, make sure that you are communicating that with them. A video call, any kind of video call. If you are at all able to do this, make sure that their face is directly to the left or to the right of the camera because we will be able to still use their eye line even though they're a video call. If you can't get them on a video call, a phone call would be your very last resort and you shouldn't prerecord it though because then you have to pause the same every time and you can't change the pace. You can't play with it as much if it's prerecorded. So if you absolutely, absolutely have to make it a phone call because of wifi issues or whatever, it's an acting buddy. So if you are in any kind of acting Facebook group or if you know that you have a lot of Instagram followers that are also actors, even in the comments of this video, if you want to comment that you are looking for a go to reader, find somebody in your time zone or somebody in a time zone that's similar to yours and that way you guys can exchange emails or social media and be able to contact each other when you need a reader. And don't be afraid to say no to somebody when they ask you if you can be their reader because we're all busy and also don't get offended when somebody tells you that they can't be your reader because it's fine. You will find another reader. So if you didn't know, there are actually a lot of different kinds of apps that will help you put in scripts and be able to share them with other actors. There's so many different kinds of apps for this. Specifically, I just became or a few months ago actually one of my subscribers commented about this app and then there's also a Facebook group that goes with it. So you go on the Facebook group and you say, Hey, I'm available if anybody needs me or is anybody available for a rehearsal or to read through the script or to help me with the self tape. And I just used it today for the first time I helped somebody to rehearse a scene that they're going to be auditioning with. And she the person I read with was super sweet. She said she has been using this app for a long time. It's a pretty new app. So of course, they're still developing things and adding stuff. She said that there's a lot of really nice people on the app and based off of the Facebook group that I've been in for a few months, a lot of people are really there to help. And everybody seems really nice. I will leave a few links in the description of different apps that I hear my friends use. Maybe I'll be your reader in one of these apps if I see you on there. I am going to continue to make videos about readers and how to make all of that a positive experience, a successful experience. So let me know if you have any questions. And at the end of every video, I feature another channel. This is today's feature. If you would like to be featured on my next video, make sure you're subscribed like this video and leave me a comment.